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News Summaries For 20161124

 


Thanksgiving, Oceti Sakowin Style: Shailene Woodley, Jane Fonda and 500 Water Protectors

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Actresses Shailene Woodley and Jane Fonda will be among those in attendance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to give and share thanks with the water protectors holding fast in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The celebrities bought and will serve 500 water protectors a Thanksgiving dinner.

"My sister just arrived to #standingrock," Woodley wrote on Facebook. "We're going to Facebook live stream tomorrow at 11am CT with people on the ground here."

The status was accompanied by a photo of the events from "Sunday night, when protectors were sprayed in subzero temperatures with water, tear gas, mace, rubber bullets, bean bag bullets, concussion grenades... pray for unconditional love tonight," she wrote.


Live streaming from Standing Rock

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Watch the live-stream.


Cops and Big Pharma Shamefully & Quietly Kill Legislation Allowing CBD Oil for Epileptic Kids

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In Idaho, a bill to allow people like Josh Phillips to access CBD oil was passed by the state legislature in 2015, only to be defeated by a group of powerful special interests-including cops, prosecutors, and pharmaceutical companies-with direct access to policy makers in Boise. Emails obtained by Reason reveal a behind-the-scenes effort organized by the state's Office of Drug Policy to derail the CBD legislation and, after it passed against the wishes of Gov. Butch Otter and his administration, to use executive authority to replace the bill with an alternative treatment program that has done nothing to help Josh Phillips or many other Idahoans suffering from seizures.


Cops and Big Pharma Shamefully & Quietly Kill Legislation Allowing CBD Oil for Epileptic Kids

Contributed by: Alan McLemore

Source

In Idaho, a bill to allow people like Josh Phillips to access CBD oil was passed by the state legislature in 2015, only to be defeated by a group of powerful special interests-including cops, prosecutors, and pharmaceutical companies-with direct access to policy makers in Boise. Emails obtained by Reason reveal a behind-the-scenes effort organized by the state's Office of Drug Policy to derail the CBD legislation and, after it passed against the wishes of Gov. Butch Otter and his administration, to use executive authority to replace the bill with an alternative treatment program that has done nothing to help Josh Phillips or many other Idahoans suffering from seizures.



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